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Thursday, December i, 1955
Volume 10 — Number 41
Shehan's C lothing S tore will be
open S atu rd ay , December 2, ac
cording to Robert Shehan, store
owner. T he store will be located
in the H urst-Johnson Building,
form erly occupied by Eva Lee’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Shehan w ere fo rm
erly from Coos Bay. He was used-
ca r m an ag er for Lou Blanc A uto
Agency, w hile Mrs. Shehan w as
w ith th? J. C. Penney Company.
T he sto re has been alm ost com
pletely renovated, | w ith stucco
put on the outside and new fix
tu re s inside. They will handle
The new high school gym in th e m en’s and boys clothing, both for
b ig B rookings-H arbor high school w ork and sports.
will get its initiation of fire F ri
day night, when the E ureka, C al THIRTY-THREE ARE
ifornia team visits here in the
seasons opener for both team s.
ENROLLED IN CLASS
Coach Art G uthrie will have to
T he tw o ad u lt night school
s ta rt an untried aggregation again classes an? progressing nicely, ac
w hat should be a strong E ureka cording to S uperintendent D. D.
squad. The "B ’’ gam e s ta rts at W illiams. A to tal of 33 have en
7 p.m. and the v arsity gam e will rolled in the bookkeeping class.
begin at about 8:15.
It has been closed to fu rth e r en
Possible s ta rte rs will be G ary rollm ent.
Coates. Rod Rush, Je rry Anderson,
Ten have enrolled in the typing
S tan Grible anti Ron Bullock or class, w hich m eets on W ednesday
Deny G raham .
night. T hat clas.^ean hand]? about
P ort O rford will play here S a t ten more. It is being ta u g h t by
urday night, and Crescent City C arl H arrison.
will be in Brookings for a gam e
next W ednesday evening.
Coach G uthie said he wouldn’t
know the sta rtin g line-up until
the night of the game. He is now
sta rtin g his 11th y ear in coaching.
Season tick ets can be purchased
A group of petitions are being
th e night of the gam e a t th? circu lated by Brookings school
school.
au thorities, as a m eans of ap ply
ing for some of th e O&C T im ber
S ales money given the Curry-
G o n so lu s In ju re d
County C ourt this year.
S uperin ten d en t of Schools D. D.
In A c c id e n t
W illiam s reported th at it is im
Andy Gonsolus was in ju red in perative to have about 400 sig
an accident,^W ednesday afternoon, n atu res on the petition, which will
about 10 miles n o rth of Brookings h? presented to the C ourt soon.
when his pickup w ent over the The petition requests the Countv
grade and down a couple of h u n C ourt to allocate to the county-
dred feet, according to reports. school? on an enrollm ent basis
Gunsolus m ade his way up to the 5113,000 received from th? O&C
highw ay and was brought in to tim ber funds, which is an unbud
Dr. Ronniger’s office by a passing geted item in the counties 1958
m otorist. K enneth E. F itzgerald, budget.
of S>?atle.
E arly the county school officials
According to brief reports, Andy had gone on record requesting the
suffered several cuts and bruises money, which would be used p a r
about the head, lost a tooth or tially to re tire bonds.
two, and com plained th a t his neck
About five petitions the m aking
h u rt.
th e rounds.
Eureka Cagers To Open Season
S -D D A Y IS HERE;
C A U T IO N URGED
Today is Safe D riving (S-D)
Day, so please he careful driv
ing. The initial proclam ation
was issued by the President,
Dwight Eisenhower. A fu rth e r
proclam ation was issued last
week by M ayor Roy Brimm,
calling upon all Brooking^
residents to use extrem e cau
tion in driving, esp«ecially to
day. L ast y ear th e re w as no
accident in Brookings, and
only one fatal accident in the
en tire sta te on S-D Day.
j,o e HUlSlfbluj,
Lots of interesting things hap
pening in Brookings this week.
S un shined on Tuesday. Somebody
ru n s into the Police car. T hree
wieeks a fte r the close of th e foot
ball season they are going to form
a Q u a rte r Backs Club here. City
council m eets in vault. Joe M ur
phy bowls 603 series. A really
te rrific week!
— pipe dream s —
T he R otary Club presented old
•‘S trik e" M urphy w ith a corn cob
pipe w ith a long chain attac h ed
for “distinguished and m eritorius
service beyond and above th e call
of duty." A ctually I don’t r»'’»1'
those exact w ords being said, but
it sure w as nice of them.1 Although
I had to pay a buck fo r it.
— pipe dream s —
This could s ta rt a new fad. I
suspect before long hundreds of
people will go about w ith a corn
cob pipe dangling from a long
chain, zoot-suit style. My wife
tells me though, th a t I ca n 't w ear
it to th e B eta dance S aturday.
— pipe dream s —
T hat city council job is a touchy
one. I don t think the boys are
afraid of criticism , but th e ir new
m eeting place will sure protect
them from ira te citizens. They
m et in th e old bank vault, isolated
by three-foot 1 thick concrete walls,
la st Tuesday.
— pipe dream s —
T he sew er problem s seem s to be
com ing to a head. I understand
th e re w as ta lk of form ing a buck
e t brigade down Del N orte Lane
from th e B eresa tr a c t to the
Ocean in event o th e r negotiations
fail.
— pipe dream s —
Dr. Sam Gibson is having a
field day. w ith O klahom a rated
No. 1 in th e nation. J u s t think,
if it w asn't for five losses, W is
consin would be there todav.
Fifty Dramatic Students
To Attend Work Shop
Fifty B rookings-H arbor D ram
a tic stu d ents will atten d a d ra m
atic workshop, to be held a t the
H um bolt S tate College in E ureka
th is week.
T he group will leave F r id a #
noon, and will re tu rn S atu rd ay
afternoon. H ousing will be fu rn
ished for th e stu d e n ts by the
college. Mr. Swanson and Mrs.
D ougherty will accompany them,
as advisors.
L illy B ro w n to H ead
R ebekahs This Y e a r
Lilly Brown was elected to be
the Noble G rand of Topaz Reb
ekah Lodge a t its re g u la r m eet
ing last T uesday evening, the
m eeting being presided over by
Noble Grand Opal LaBrook. O ther
officers who w ere elected to serve
w ith Mrs. Brown are as follows:
Vice-grand. Alice Spence: Record
ing secretary, Elaine M urry; F in
ancial secretary. H en rietta Dill
and T reasu rer, Lucille Cole The
installation of th e new officers will
ta k e place in Jan u ary .
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Police Car Hit
R A Y REEKMAN
IN HO SPITAL
AFTER ACCIDENT
Raym ond Reekm an is receiving
tre a tm e n t at the Seaside H ospital
following an accident W ednesday
evening when he fell asleep and
w recked his ca r ju st below the
M. M. Ja k lev icz home south of
H arbor. H e had driven from
K lam ath Falls w here he atten d s
Oregon Technical In stitu te to
spend Thanksgiving at home, but
spent it in the hospital instead,
m aking the trip th ere in the
Brookings Ambulance.
He is suffering from a cracked
vertebrae, concussion, and m u lt
iple cuts and bruises. It is not
known a t this tim e how long he
will have to stay in the hospital.
FL IE S TO GERMANY
Dr. Paul Ronniger left last
week to fly to G erm any for a
visit. He took on? of his sons w ith
him on th e trip. D r Sam Gibson
will be in charge of the office
while he is gone.
A lbert L ander, 40, S m ith River,
California, piled into th e Brook
ings Police C ar last W ednesday
■■vening, w hile the Police c a r was
parked at an accident scene, w ith
th e red flasher going, in Harbor.
Lander, driving a '41 Chevrolet,
w as arrested on a drunken driv
ing charge following the accident,
He pleaded guilty in Ju stice of
Peace Roy B row n’s court to driv
ing under th ? influence of intoxi
cating liquor, to driving w ithout
an o p e ra to r’s license. L ander was,
also driving w ithout insurance.
He paid a $200 fine, levied by-
Brown. and agreed to pay all tb -
dam ages to the Police car, which
am ounted to over $700.
Joe Schum aker. Brookings Pol
ice Officer, had stopped a t th ? ac
cident of Raymond Reekm an. to
help him into the am bulance. Both
th e L ander and R e ’km an cars
w ere com plete wrecks.
It is expected th a ’ the police car
would be back in service this
week.
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P o stm aster Bill Thompson re
ports th a t Mrs. Joe Jacobs was
th e first person to have com
pleted sending all her C hristm as
packages out this year.
Dunning Plans Art Events
George Dunning, of Dunning
M otors, has announced the second
an n u al "C hristm as A rt Show,"
which proved to be a success last
year. The firm plaits ,te aw ard
$35C- 00 in prizes, for window
p am tii.g r, -s last year. and in
O riginal C hristm as C ard <*?sign.
The C hristm as C ard idea is an
elaboration on .last y e a r’s show,
which ju st included window p ain t
ing.
D unning said th a t a first prize
aw ard of $75.00 would be given
’
he best painting on th e w in
dows of his show-room. Second
I riz? •> ould be $50, and third prize
$15. The next th ree would win an
honorable m ention ci
it,
T J
were u
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week to judge the paintings on
the ba. is of
: tlity, compos
ition, them e ano -. orkm ansn p.
R ules will follow in next w ttk s
Pilot.
A choral gr ... will be or h a - a tc
sing a t the j . . tp of tne shew
which will 1 ■ ju st before C h rist
mas. T he windows will be avail
able from D*x'< m b?r 10th on. The
paintings w ill be done on the in
side of th e windows th is year.
Division B, of the show, w ill be
th e designing of an original C hrist
m as greeting card. C ontestants
are urge ; to use R S meh by 11
inch pap« r. It would be divided in
the following categories to enable
all to p a r’::.pate.
Section 1. E le rw n ta rv division.
and including th e sixth grade.
F irst prize, $7.50, Second prize,
$-7.00; th ird prize, $2.50 and hon-
ezable m ention, 20 prizes of $1.00
eacn.
Section 2. Ju .-.x r Divi.-ion, Open
to all children in th e 7th, 8th,
1
9th grades. F irst prize, S10: Sec
ond ; ize, $7.50; third, $5 00, and
10 It orable m entions of $1 each.
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on 3. Senior Division, open
to j
igsters in the sophomore,
ju n io r and senior classes. F irst,
$15 Of: second, $10; th ird $5 00;
and 10 honorable m entions of $1.00
each.
Section 4. Adult Division, open
to all persons 18 years and up
F irst, $25.00; second. $15 00; th ird
ClfHT r.G Tv?
’^ ’es
P lan s w ere com pleted for the
card p a rty the R ebekah Social
Club is giving a t th? I.O.O.F.
H all this S atu rd ay .Decem ber 3rd.
w ith several card gam es to be
played.
PETITIONS OUT
FOR SCHOOL AID
EARLY OR LATE ?
Quarterbacks Asked Ta Meet
P.T. A. GROUP TO
MEET TONIGHT
Winchuck Womens Club
Met Thursday
T he B rookings-H arbor P.T.A.
will hold th eir C hristm as m eeting,
tonight (Dec. 1 1 at 8 p.m. at the
high school.
High school stu d en ts will p re
sent th? program , which will con
sist of two one-act plays, solos,
and a mixed q u arte t. C hristm as
songs will be included. R efresh
m ents will be served by th ? third
grade mothers,
Eight m em bers of the W inchuck
Womens Club and on? visitor en
joyed an afternoon to g eth er last
T hursday at the home of Mrs.
C lara Bowlin, it bring th eir Nov.
em ber mci’ting d ate Sewing for
Cam p W hite was dope during the
afternoon and plans m ade for the
December meeting. which will be
field at the home of M ary Brayn-
a rd on December 14th, and will
s ta rt with a potluck dinner at
noon. A C hristm as tree and ex
change of presents will featu re
th e meeting.
SM ITH RIVER M A N
DROW NS SU N D AY
W eldon H M cCarger, 54, was
drow ned in Sm ith River, last S u n
day, and his body has not been
recovered up lo the tim e we go to
press.
Mr McCargei widely known for
y ears in th e area, w as fishing w ith
Bob Young, at th e Peacock Hole.
According to reports, th ey had
Just sw ung th eir boat into the
strea m when it sapsized. M cCar
ger tried to grab a rock to hold
him self when ’he fast w a te r took
him under while Young is said to
have clung to th e boat until it
hung un ir ’he brush and then
made his wav to shore, a id 'd by
o th e r fishermen.
M cC arger was very well known
in Brookings and at W akefield,
w here he and his wife had run the
Big R Store. He is survived by his
wife and five children, th e young
est 8 month ■>nd th e oldest 8
v are.
F IR S T CONCERT
T he first i the S eason’s Com
m unity C onceits w ill be held a t
the Crescent Elk School A u d ito r
ium a t 8:15, th e evening of Dec
em ber 5th. Th? p erform ers will
be th e Paganinni Q u artet.
Dr. C harles Law, who attended
p atien ts hen- during th e early
days of the ol ’ mill, is now well
m e ? fto and he and his wife ha”?
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The football season, generally
speaking, is ju st about over. But
football is ju st beginning here in
Brookings, a com m unity which is
generally
speaking about six
m onths ahead of o th er com m un
ities. A m eeting next Monday
night. D ecem lier 5th, will be held
to form a Q u arterb ack Club here,
according to two men, W arren
McNeeley, and Dr. Sam Gibson.
The m eeting will be held in
o ld e r to boost fooball for Brook
ings-H arbor high school. It will
tie held at 7:30 p.m. in the new-
high school gym Anyone in te r
ested in seeing football in this
com m unity a re invited to atten d
I t is expected th a t w ith in th is
week th e C ity of B rookings w ill
be in th e sew er business— a t least
in a very lim ited way.
D evelopm ents w ere com ing fa st
and furious, as th e B eresa firm ,
who are building 49 new hom es
here, announced th e ir in te n tio n s
to begin moving people in to th e m
this week.
Beresa h as a ’rtad y ag re ed to
tu rn the sew er system o v er to th e
city, and th e city has ag reed to
ta k e care of the sewage fo r th e
housing developm ent . . . b u t the
city h?.s no m ain sew er lines yet.
A h urried session w as called
Monday night, with a tto rn e y D ave
Shaw, Gold Beach, r e p r e s e n t# *
the Beresa firm. The council, and
a rep resen tativ e of the B rookings
Land and Tow nsite Com pany,
Mild d Byrne, all th e p a rtic ip
ants. w ere at the m eeting. How
ever, very little concrete w as de
cided, except th a t because of th e
"health, w elfare" of its citizens th e
city would have to see th a t those
people living in the B eresa hous
ing would have to get sew er se r
vice.
A nother m eeting w as called, on
Tuesday, as th e city was still in
an uncom fortable position of hav
ing to furnish sewage service,
w ithout pipes, or a rra n g in g to
have th e Brookings L and and
Tow nsite handle it.
A pi pose! ir o n the P ro o k in js
Land and Town t? Co. w as read
at the m eeting Tuesday, b ut sev
eral of th e councilm en objected
to several of the points in th e p ro
posed agreem ent, and said th a t
they w ould not au th o rize it. A ree-
ommo: ¡¡at.on to mail? a co u n te r
proposal w as mad?
In th e m eantim e, however, th e
City c i r.o o k in g s and M ayor Roy
Brimm w ere m aking plans to
handie die F n-esa sewage in th e ir
own v . T l." city would use a
tan k
c. B rim m raid, and h aul
aw ay the sew age twice a day, i?
necessary, u n til such tim e as th e
m a tt i r co uld be straig h ten ed out.
M a k e G e o g ra p h ic
Surv?> v !n H a rb o r
A gc
■; c Mirvc-. will l>e m ade
next ■,
■ in the H arb o r area by
the Sc
n»?r' ation service. The
purpr : r ‘ *h? irvey is to deter-
m ir ■> • 5 ' ■' th ground w a te r is
the n o s ’ plentiful.
Infor,“.' i.on will be used for de-
term lr
v l ' r e W ills can he
clr'!':
B
R ation w ater.
A
... e engineer from
th e S o J (
. ation service. A.
H Schm d ’
G ran ts P ass, a
geolo-
Holland, of P o rt-
land;
Brown will assist
ir. thi ;
I t will ta k e about
three
will include m ainly
the 1 i:‘
? area ir. H arbor.
They
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-tart on Monday,
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c o ? ; L?;TE COURSE
1 w in.'L eora B rad-
shav/
■Moss, Anna D ot-
•on. i .
P e tra Lee, Lillian
M a’h .v
Rowley, Imcille
P a tt?
ap erin ten dent o t
Sch.c 1
W illiam s recently
corn;
ourse in th e im-
prove-
■ -11 uction and read-
ir,g. P :c f Alien and Hill from
Sout cip O regon C o lle g e 'o f Ed-
ucatio.i , ■ ‘re the in stru ctors.
Ropo f t on Convc ¿ion
A report on tne 25th annual
convention of th? Oregon Coast
Association was made by C harles
G rayshel, P resident of th e B rook
ings C ham ber of Commerce. The
report follows:
Sunday. Nov. 20 was reg istratio n
day, and no host dinner at the
D orchester House. Monday m orn
ing m eeting roll call d irectors
from each county in Oregon, and
Del N orte County, California.
D istribution during 1955 of th.?
Oregon Coast Folder w as 75.00fl
through 400 outlets.
The 1956
Oregon T ravel Guide will he ofT
th e press Ja n u a ry 6 100.000 cop-
iff at a cost of $6.450
Hhis y ear th e Oregon C ,as?
Association w as h?.-t to travel
e
from lx -.' „oiorauo U u
•San Francisco. Tires: editors tra v
eled fi£»n Seaside to Bandon and
as a resu lt of th ?lr visit the O re
gon coast received a lot n t favor
able publicity in th eir respective
publications.
In 1956 th e Oregon coast will
have displays in eigljt trav el shows
which ore sponsored each y ear by
th e Pacific N o :’.' w e s t T ravel As
sociation. th e Oregon C oast Assoc
iation is a m em ber of th e P.N.T.A.
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the en tire coastal counties al
though 1956 should show an in
crease as we have a.cap ab le m an
ag er and staff in charge of th e
prom otion for the first tim e since
Arch S an d ers resigned.
Of in terest to local motel o p er
ato rs and o th e r busines firm s who
have signs along th e highway.
A fter Ja n u a ry 1, 1956, it will be
necessary to secure an application
from the S ecretary of L abor Com
mission, Salem , if you wish to
ere ct a bill board. Be su re and
see th a t y o u r pr, sent signs are
not on s ta te h .Jiw ay right-of-way.
If thev a t you will he ordered
t > ta k e them down.
com n
niy in 1956, and any
sugges
or recom m endations
by a
group o r C ham ber of
Comr .......... .. be m ade in i»'rson
by w
. lor an appointm ent.
Vou i
t
.-te a d ate and tim e
th a t y 'i ' in be present, and also
a writ i• brief m ust be m ade w ith
oral stab m ents.
The m ost im portant item of
local inti t->t w as the new s th a t
the money th a t w as ea rm ark ed
foi i . ' G ,n I! ,cr. t I’ *;o! R ive r
had been retu rn ed i . V.S. 151.
The county co u rt co m m ittee i??l
th at it n. iy be possible to secure
m ore funds for this - etion of
Highway 101 in th e fu tu re . T he
highw ay com m ittee Of the Oregon
Coast A ssociation adopted as the
No 1 p ro ject th is section betw een
Gold B each and P istol R iver f o r
I??5o.
T he mei-.l ershlp voted x
Mr. Bill T ugm an, chairm an of
tn e Oregon Advisory Com m ittee
or. trav el p r >mc•::< r. was the
sp eak er Monday noon. E is •alk
w as along th e sam e lines th a t he
presented to o u r Cham ber of Com by-laws, changing the lrscai y ear
m erce this year.
of the Association to Ju ly 1, to
One new factor is th a t this Ju t. 30 instead of a calendar
com m ittee w as appointed by th e year. T h e present officers w ill
until June 30, 1956, a t
governor to m ake a study of o u r i ' . i
h t e new officers w ill ba
S ta te P ark system This com m it v
tee checked 150 s ta te parks in insiaiL-d to serve until June 30,
Oregon, and visited sta te parks 1957 f o o s B ay w as selected aa
h -* for the 1956 convention which
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